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Who was the first film star worldwide, called “The Professor” by Charlie Chaplin?

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Max Linder

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Name the first female director and where she worked when she started.

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Alice Guy; Gaumont Film Company

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What is the name of D.W. Griffith’s most famous film?

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The Birth of a Nation

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What year did George Melies create A Trip to the Moon?

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1902

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Who was Eadward Muybridge?

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Filmmaker who was commissioned to study whether or not all 4 hooves of a horse leave the ground at the same time. Created first film

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Who was Etienne-Jules Marey?

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Showed the flight of birds through a series of photographs (1878)

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Who created the chronophotographic gun?

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Etienne-Jules Marey

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What had to predate cinematography?

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1) Scientists had to realize that an eye could perceive motion if images are shown in successsion
2) The ability to project a rapid series of images
3) The ability to use photography to make successive pictures on a clear surface
4) The ability to print photographs on a base flexible enough to be passed through a camera rapidly
5) Intermittent mechanism (Shutter)

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What is a stereoscope?

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hand held viewer that created three dimensional effects with oblong cards

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When was the cinema invented?

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the 1890s

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When was the first camera built and by whom?

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1888; Marey

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Who invented the Kinetoscope viewing box and Kinetograph camera?

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Edison or specifically, his assistant Dickson

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Who invented an industry changing projection system?

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The Lumiere brothers

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What was the Lumiere Freres company the biggest European manufacturer of?

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Photographic plates

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Who designed the Cinematographe?

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Lumiere brothers

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Who shot at 16 fps and who shot at 46 fps?

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Lumiere brothers; Edison

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Who relieved tension in cameras by adding an extra loop, therefore allowing for longer reels?

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The Lathams

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Who created the Phantoscope and Vitascope (projectors)?

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Armat

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What is an actuality?

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nonfiction films

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What is a scenic?

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a short travelogue

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What is a topical?

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brief showing of a news event

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Who was Charles Pathe?

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A phonograph seller and exhibitor who formed Pathe Freres

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What was the single largest film company in the world?

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Pathe Freres

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Who made most of the films for Pathe Freres in the beginning?

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Alice Guy

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What company was popular in 1897 and what did they change their name to?
American Mutoscope--> American Mutoscope and Biograph (AM&B)
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Who was the most popular director hired by AM&B?
D.W. Griffith
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Who was the most important filmmaker of the early silent film era?
Edwin S. Porter
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Who created The Great Train Robbery?
Edwin S. Porter
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What is a vertically integrated firm?
One that controls the production, distribution, and exhibition of a film
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What is a horizontally integrated firm?
A firm that expands within one sector of the film industry, as when one production firm acquires and absorbs another
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Who took over the supervision of Gaumont's films when Guy left in 1908?
Louis Feuillade
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Who was the popular entrepreneur from Denmark?
Ole Olsen
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Most films from Japan were what kind of films?
Kabuki films
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Why were some programs called nickelodeons?
Admission was a nickel
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What did the Warner brothers start as?
Nickelodeon exhibitors
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How did Edison try to force its competitors out of business?
By suing them for patent infringement
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How did the MPPC originate and what is it?
Production companies assumed they had to pay Edison or AM&B to stay in business. Edison and AM&B headed MPPC, or Motion Pictures Patents Company
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What is the standard film length?
One reel
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How did the MPPC attempt to monopolize distribution?
By creating the General Film Company
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What was a severe blow to the MPPC?
A court decision that companies could use any camera without litigation
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Who succeeded in closing down all the city's nickelodeons?
The New York mayor
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What kind of editing was popular in early silent films?
Continuity editing
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When did intertitles become popular?
After 1905
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What were the two types of intertitles?
expository and dialogue
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What are two techniques for color release prints?
tinting and toning
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What does the continuity system of editing include?
intercutting, analytical editing, and contiguity
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What is intercutting?
Where the action cuts back and forth between locales
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Who developed intercutting?
D.W. Griffith
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What did AM&B change its name to in 1909?
American Biograph
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What is analytical editing?
Editing that breaks down a single space into separate framings (i.e. inserts)
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What is contiguity editing?
When characters move out of the space of one shot and reappear in another locale.
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What is a reverse shot?
One character looking offscreen then a cut to another character looking in the opposite as the first (i.e. conversations)
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What country filled the void after France and Italy's film industries were destroyed by the war effort?
America
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What was the first American company to open its own distribution offices in Europe?
Vitagraph
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What disrupted the free flow of films?
World War I
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What was one of the most popular Russian companies?
Yermoliev
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What brought Russian filmmaking to a standstill?
The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
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Who were two important directors from Gaumont Film Company?
Leonce Perret and Louis Feuillade
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What Swedish director was one of the most important of the entire silent era?
Victor Sjostrom
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Who opened Universal Studios?
Laemmle
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Who formed Famous Players in Famous Plays?
Zukor
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What did Famous Players in Famous Plays become?
Paramount
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Who started working for Paramount?
D.W. Griffith
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What are the names of the three brothers who founded Warner Bros. in 1913?
Sam, Jack, and Harry
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What did Fox Film Corporation rename itself to?
20th-Century Fox
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What does MGM stand for?
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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What company did D.W. Griffith leave in 1913?
Biograph Company
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How many reel is The Birth of a Nation?
12
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What film did Griffith make after The Birth of a Nation?
Intolerance
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Who united in the new firm, United Artists?
Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Buster Keaton
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What are the movements from the twentieth century loosely summed up by?
Avant-garde
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What do practitioners of Surrealism favor?
Bizarre, irrational, artfully contrived juxtapositions of objects and actions
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What years was the French Impressionism movement?
1918-1929
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What years was the German Expressionism movement?
1920-1927
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What years was the Soviet Montage movement?
1925-1933

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